common formative assessment vocabulary. allusion a reference to something outside the work you are...

COMMON FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

VOCABULARY

ALLUSION

• A reference to something outside the work you are reading, watching, etc.• Ex: Cain and Abel story mentioned in Beowulf

• Missed by 28%

ENJAMBMENT

• The continuation of a line of poetry without the use of punctuation at the end of a line.

• Missed by 72%

ANACHRONISM

• Something that is not in its proper timeframe.• Ex: A wristwatch in the play Julius Caesar• Missed by 70%

EXEMPLUM

• A story with a moral or lesson• Ex: Three Little Pigs• Missed by 66%

CAESURA

• Poetic device of inserting a pause in the middle of a line• Missed by 64%

FOIL

• Character who serves as a contrast to another character• 64% missed

ARCHETYPE

• A character, setting, plot or other story element that has occurred in many stories over the course of time.

• Missed by 64%

KENNING

• An Old English poetic technique of using two words to create a metaphor. • EX: Whale-road means ocean.

• Missed by 57%

ANGLO-SAXON

• A Germanic tribe that populated England in the early centuries A.D.• Missed by 57%

FATE

• The idea that key events in the future are predetermined and cannot be changed. • Missed by 53%

MOTIF

• A recurring subject, idea, or element in a literary work.• Missed by 53%

JUXTAPOSITION

• Arranging two ideas side by side for the purpose of contrasting them.• Missed by 53%

EPIC HERO

• Character who fulfills the qualities admired in his/her culture.

FORESHADOWING

• A suggestion of what might happen later in work

POINT OF VIEW

• The perspective from which a story is told.

ROMANTICISM

• Literary period that emphasized emotions, beauty, and nature.

ENLIGHTENMENT

• Literary period that emphasized the development of scientific and philosophical knowledge.

MEDIEVAL

• Historical period that emphasized chivalry, courtly love, and saw little scientific advancement.

SATIRE

• Type of writing that exposes faults through the use of humor.

GOTHIC

• Type of writing that emphasizes the darker elements of romanticism

RENAISSANCE

• Literary period that brought back the Greek classics and produced many new and important works.

TONE

• An artist’s attitude toward his work.

PLOT

• A series of related events

PROTAGONIST

• Main character, often but always the “good guy”

THEME

• The central message of a work• Mr. Walter does not accept a moral as a theme.

SYMBOL

• Something that stands for something else.

SONNET

• A fourteen line poem with a formal rhyme scheme